Car construction.



No. 870,296. PATENTED Nome, 1907.

I. L. KISER & 0. M. PRINCE.

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ISAAC L. KISER AND OSCAR M. PRINCE, OF ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI.

CAR CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISAAC L. KIsER and OSCAR M. PRINCE, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Charles, in the county of St. Charles and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Constructions, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a'part hereof.

Our invention has relation to improvements in railway car constructions; and it consists in the novel features more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is an end elevation of a car showing our invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a perspective of the preferred form of endplate reinforcing member; and Fig. 5 is a top plan of a modification of reinforcing member.

The object of our invention is to provide the endplates of passenger, freight, mail, baggage, and other cars with reinforcing members capable of resisting the impact of two or more cars coming together in the event of a collision, such reinforcing members preventing the telescoping of the cars. This member is preferably in the form of a truss which imparts stiffness and strength to the end plate, the impact due to collision being taken up by the truss and in turn communicated to the sides thereby distributing the strains in directions unfavorable to telescoping.

In detail the invention may be described as follows:

Referring to the drawings, C represents a conventional form of car, 1 the side plate and 2, the end plate all as fully understood in the art. Disposed along the front face of the end-plate is a tension member or metallic plate 3 having rearwardly extending terminal wings 4 secured to the outer faces of the adjacent ends of the side plates 1, and preferably flush therewith (Fig. 2).

Adjacent to the opposite ends of the tension member and on the front face thereof are formed shoulders or abutments 5 against which bear the opposite ends of a compression member 6, the space between the members being occupied by a wood filler block 7 as shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, or by a series of struts 7 as shown in the modification in Fig. 5, or by a suitable Web or equivalent filler not shown.

In the majority of cars as now constructed, the top ends are weak and liable to telescope in the event of collision. By the employment of our invention, the end plate becomes reinforced by what virtually amounts to a truss, said truss comprising the compression and tension members aforesaid, and the filler or equivalent construction occupying the space between the members. Upon impact, the strains are taken up first by the compression members, which in turn, throughthe abutments 5, 5, are communicated to the tension members, and partially to the filler block, the dissipation of the strains, and the resulting strength imparted to the end plates rendering the car practically non-telescoping in the event of collisions. Such details of construction which are well known and here illustrated are not re-- ferred to as they form no part of the present invention. Having described our invention what we claim is: In combination with the endplate of a car, an outer truss secured thereto having" an exposed compression mem her, an inner tension member provided with abutments or shoulders forming supports for the ends of the compression member, a side plate, terminal rearwardly extendingwings on the tension member engaging the outer faces of the side-platcs for a suitable distance from the adjacent ends of the side plates, and a cushioning filler between the tension and compression members.

In testimony whereof we alfix our signatures, in pres ence of two witnesses.

ISAAC L. KISER. OSCAR M. PRINCE. Witnesses J. H. HETTINGER, A. H. MEIER. 

